בּוֹא bôwʼ — to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Translated in the KJV as abide, apply, attain, × be, befall, besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry.
a primitive root; to go or come (in a wide variety of applications).
bôwʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 529Perfect (qatal) 391Imperfect (yiqtol) 369Infinitive construct 264Participle (active) 217Sequential perfect (weqatal) 112Imperative 67Jussive 28Infinitive absolute 10Cohortative 9
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 156Imperfect (yiqtol) 96Perfect (qatal) 89Sequential perfect (weqatal) 82Participle (active) 60Infinitive construct 53Imperative 21Infinitive absolute 1
And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
Hoph'al
Participle (passive) 9Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Perfect (qatal) 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›